After what happened to him at Roland Garros (an ankle injury), it would be really unfair if he was not here. I’m very happy to see him recovered and playing well. Hopefully he won’t play that well on Monday but he’s 100 per cent here and he deserves to be.

David on playing Rafa:

We’ve played some good matches – on clay in Madrid for example was a good match that Rafa won and we’ll try and play another good match here. I’m sure I can play some good tennis against him. I’ll try and play some good rallies, be aggressive and make him run a lot. We’ll see, I have nothing to lose. It will be a good match.

Its so sad for rafa. He’s had such an excellent year and is year end no1 but im sure he wanted this trophy to add to his collection. But i think he will have to pull out if his knee is bad. Never mind. Lets hope he has a fantastic 2018 -which will be interesting as stan, andy and novak will all be back no doubt but at what level? It’ll be fun to see it play out.